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Transistor power dissipation

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How to choose the right switching transistor for my application? It must withstand the current, generated heat and applied voltages. Current and voltage does not pose any problem. You have to use some calculations about the power dissipation. (more…)

1-Wire and MSP430

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I bought a digital thermometer DS18B20 and I wanted to connect it to my LaunchPad. DS18B20 communicates via 1-Wire protocol. I used a bit banging to emulate the protocol. CPU speed should be over 1 MHz since the protocol requires timing almost on a microsecond level.

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MSP430, GCC, mspdebug

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This article describes brief steps to setup a Linux development tools for MSP430 MCU – compiler and programmer. MSP430 is not as well linux-supported as AVR or 8051 but fortunately there are ways to make it working.

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